For many NBA fans, each season of the All-Star Game is undoubtedly a very high-profile feast, of which in the single game, the competition between the three-point king and the dunk king is the most intense, but also the most suspenseful, in the 2022 Cleveland All-Star Game, a total of eight players will participate in the three-point contest, namely the Raptors' Trae Young, the Grizzlies' Bane, the Clippers' Kennard, the Bulls' LaVine, the Pelicans' CJ McCollum, the Nets' Mills, Downs of the Timberwolves and VanVleet of the Raptors, these eight players are the most stable three-point shooting points on their respective teams, but to win the championship in the three-point contest, you need not only to have excellent shooting ability, but also to have a certain amount of luck and excellent form in the game! The eight players who participated in this All-Star Game's three-point contest have not won this honor before, which will also allow them to go all out and strive to win the three-point king, the first round of qualifying, Kennard, Trae Young and Towns scored 28 points, 22 points and 22 points respectively to enter the final decisive stage, in the final, Towns first appeared on the first appearance to throw the best performance in history, but also won the Cleveland All-Star Game three-point king!
As with the rules of the three-point contest in the past few years, this three-point contest will still set up five projection points, ordinary balls are worth 1 point, and colored balls are worth 2 points, of which four projection points will be composed of 4 ordinary balls and 1 colored ball, and one projection point is all colored balls, in addition, there will be two three-point areas, respectively, two 45° on the front of the basket, shooting can get 3 points, the first round of appearance order lottery decision, the best three people into the final showdown, The order of appearances in the final is the reverse order of the first round of results.
The first to appear was Bane of the Grizzlies, who put all the colored balls in the top arc, but the personal condition was not very good, and forgot to shoot the second three-point ball, and after shooting two at the fourth point, he went to shoot that super far, and finally only scored 18 points, the second appearance of McCollum put all the colored balls in the last bottom corner, but the colored ball did not perform well, and only scored 19 points, and the third appearance was the biggest favorite Kennard, who lived up to expectations and scored 28 points. Golden State Kuliravin did not control the first round time, and the last colored ball rushed to lead to a poor performance of only 14 points.
Mills, the fifth appearance, the first shooting point was all out, but the colored ball performed well and scored 21 points, the next appearance of Towns was also in good shape to score 22 points, the penultimate vanVleet only scored 16 points and was eliminated, and the finale Trae Young scored 22 points, which also allowed him to enter the final showdown with Kennard and Towns.
In the three-point final, Towns took the lead, he put the colored ball in his most certain top arc position, and after the start, he maintained a very hot shooting feel, and finally cut down 29 points, creating the highest record for the NBA three-point total of 40 points, and also put great pressure on Trae Young and Kennard who appeared later, obviously Towns' excellent performance affected the play of both of them, neither of them could surpass Downs, and could only watch the new Wolf King become the new All-Star three-point king with a record 29 points!